Artsweek

May 15, 2014

Two Banjos in Paradise: The Mystifying Talent of Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

By Sio Tepper

There’s something about a crowd of people that gather to see a banjo duo — some kind of eagerness or intense dedication to sharing in musical delight. The banjo (or something a lot like it) is found in cultures all o...

May 8, 2014

Dam-Funk, Speak Volumes Celebrate 10 Years of Magic Lantern

By Demi Anter

Tomorrow evening, local UCSB-based music bloggers and event producers Speak Volumes Media will collaborate with Magic Lantern Films to bring celebrated artist Dam-Funk to Isla Vista Theater. Dam-Funk, who hails from Los ...

May 8, 2014

Le Youth and Kedd Cook Entertain EOS Crowd

By Lalita Stone

Last Friday, We The Beat brought DJs Le Youth and Kedd Cook to EOS Lounge for what proved to be another addition to their track record of live show successes. Doors opened at 9 p.m. and at $5, tickets were basically a st...

May 8, 2014

Philip Glass Ensemble Offers Unique Performance

By Elliott Wright

On Wednesday, April 30, the Philip Glass Ensemble performed live alongside Jean Cocteau’s classic film “La Belle et La Bête” in a performance brought to Santa Barbara by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Quite different f...

May 8, 2014

ASPB Releases Extravaganza Lineup, Joy Ensues

By Lalita Stone

This past Monday, AS Program Board finally released the much-anticipated Extravaganza lineup, and the reception is amazing. In the past, ASPB has filled the Extravaganza headlining spot with big names such as Sublime, Da...

April 24, 2014

Australian EDM Artist Plays Intimate SB Set

By Alexandra DeSanto

From playing Coachella on Friday to playing Casa De La Raza here in Santa Barbara on Sunday, Flume’s captivating beats gave a whole new meaning to Easter Sunday (or 4/20, whichever you chose to celebrate). Flume, the s...

April 24, 2014

Downtown Exhibition Features UCSB Artists

By Sio Tepper

The Arts Fund of Santa Barbara is currently hosting an alluring exhibit titled “Drift and Fixation.” This is an all-Gaucho show, featuring undergraduate, graduate and staff artwork, which opened in the Funk Zone on A...

April 17, 2014

Fire Department Still Rocking SB

By Isabel Miller-Bottome

UCSB alumni band, The Fire Department, celebrated the release of their brand new music video and their second EP, “Underwater,” at Velvet Jones in downtown Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 3. The band’s first ever ...

April 17, 2014

Writer Shteyngart Charms With Insight and Wit

By Alexandra Nicholson

On April 10 in Campbell Hall, award-winning novelist Gary Shteyngart gave an endearing public reading of his latest work, Little Failure: A Memoir, a refreshingly realistic take on the challenging immigrant childhood of ...

April 17, 2014

Three Local Bands On the Come-Up Play SOhO

By Lalita Stone

I’m not a veteran to SOhO (yet), but the restaurant and music venue has been a great setting for a variety of showcases in the past. On April 3, three local bands came together for a great night of chill music. We The ...

April 17, 2014

Assad Family Love Translates on the Campbell Stage

By Sio Tepper

The Assad Family performance on our campus last week was the concert of my dreams. I could have stayed and watched the band — which performed at Campbell Hall in a show presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures on Wednesda...

April 10, 2014

Les Ballets Trockadero Returns to Santa Barbara

By Demi Anter

Last Tuesday night, the Granada Theatre and UCSB Arts & Lectures welcomed the renowned dance troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (a.k.a. “the Trocks”) to Santa Barbara. The group began in 1974 and has s...

April 10, 2014

Get Friendly With UK’s Rising EDM Stars

By Lalita Stone

Recently, one of my friends was listening to a remix of Justice’s popular song “We Are Your Friends.” Instead of the usual repetitive “We are… your friends!” verse, this version began with “We are… [awkwa...

April 10, 2014

Traditional Sufi Music Delights Students

By Sio Tepper

Asif Ali Khan, protégé of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and his fellow Qawwali musicians shared their traditional devotional singing and drumming with an audience at Campbell Hall last Thursday. Campbell Hall was in ...

April 4, 2014

What To Expect From A&L This Spring

By Demi Anter

As always, UCSB Arts & Lectures will present numerous entertaining and enriching performers from a variety of disciplines to our campus this spring.

April 4, 2014

Comic Hodgman Steals Dads, Hearts, Ayn Rand’s Clothes

By Demi Anter

“The Daily Show” regular correspondent and author of the Complete World Knowledge trilogy of faux-factual almanacs brought his unique brand of existential crisis-fueled comedy to Campbell Hall last Tuesday night for ...